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The most powerful woman in North Korea has never held the title of leader. The most captive woman in North Korea has never been behind bars. Three women orbit Kim Jong-un. One threatens nuclear strikes under her own name. One vanishes from public life for seventeen months at a time. One was introduced to the world at the young age of age nine... holding her father's hand at an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. The Sister: Kim Yo-jong built her brother's public image, charmed the world at the 2018 Olympics, and became the first woman in history to issue a nuclear weapons threat. She is the most powerful woman in North Korean history. She may also be the most dangerous. The Wife: Ri Sol-ju was a young singer when the dying dictator's inner circle arranged her marriage to the heir apparent. She has never spoken publicly. She has never set foot in a country where she could seek asylum. When she resurfaced after a 17-month disappearance, she was carrying a $2,850 Gucci bag - in a country where the average wage is four dollars a month. The Daughter: Kim Ju Ae is approximately thirteen years old. South Korean intelligence reports that she has completed her successor training. North Korean state media calls her ""respected"" - an honorific previously reserved for the Supreme Leader himself. Citizens who share her name have been ordered to change it. The Women of Paektu traces the dynasty's three-generation treatment of women - from executed mistresses and a niece who killed herself in Paris over a forbidden love affair, to an aunt who defected and now runs a dry-cleaning business in America. It reveals how two women were recruited off social media, paid ninety dollars, and unwittingly used to deliver VX nerve agent to the face of Kim Jong-un's half-brother in a crowded airport terminal. And it uncovers an ancient truth hidden in the mythology of Mount Paektu itself: that the mountain's divine power has always been feminine - and a female succession wouldn't break with tradition. It would fulfill it. A note from the author: ""I am aware that if this book were somehow to reach Pyongyang, it could conceivably put one of its subjects at risk. That I must write this sentence at all tells the reader everything they need to know about the world described in these pages."" Written under a pen name. Because sometimes the book itself is the proof.

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